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Outdoor Activities ...

As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).

When in Little Mountain, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Little Mountain and the surrounding area.

  • Weather ...
  • Astronomy & Satellites ...
    • Whether using binoculars, a small telescope or the naked-eye, the Heavens-Above website can help you to find your way around the night-time sky. In addition to detailed sky charts, their website will help you find planets, asteriods, comets, satellites and their tracks across the sky.
    • To give accurate results, Heavens-Above requires the latitude and longitude of your location. As a starting point, when we link to Heavens-Above, we pass this GPS location for Little Mountain:
    • 40.783280, -111.721320
    • Once you're on the Heavens-Above website, you can improve its accuracy by giving a more precise longitude and latitude as your actual position.
    • Open the Heavens-Above website centered on Little Mountain
  • Bird Watching ...
    • We enjoy finding new spots for bird watching and we use the eBird website for local sighting reports and to help identify hotspots.
    • The eBird website is organized on a county-by-county basis. We have selected Salt Lake County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Salt Lake County
    • Since Little Mountain is near Summit County and also Davis County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Summit County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Davis County
  • Waymarking ...
    • Looking for somewhere out of the ordinary? Find a unique place and want to share it with others? Then it's time to visit Waymarking.com:
    • Open the Waymark.com report for Little Mountain

Communities Also Named Little Mountain ...

We found five communities that are also named Little Mountain.

There is one other community in Utah that is also named Little Mountain.

Beyond Utah, we know of four communities that are located in the United States.

  • Communities Located In Utah ...
    • Weber County
      • This Little Mountain is located in Weber County and lies 42 miles [67.6 km]<1> to the northwest of the Little Mountain that is located in Salt Lake County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Weber County community of Little Mountain.
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • North Carolina
      • McDowell County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Little Mountain [McDowell County].
    • Ohio
      • Lake County
      • This Little Mountain is located in Lake County and lies 1,574 miles [2,533.1 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Little Mountain that is located in Salt Lake County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lake County community of Little Mountain.
    • South Carolina
      • Marlboro County
      • This community is historic<3> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Little Mountain [Marlboro County].
      • Newberry County
      • This Little Mountain is located in Newberry County and lies 1,712 miles [2,755.2 km]<1> to the east of the Little Mountain that is located in Salt Lake County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Newberry County community of Little Mountain.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Little Mountain ...

As we travel, we always see a community with a name that gives pause. While there are names which are interesting or familiar, some catch our attention or strike our fancy. We always wonder about such a name. If time permits and the community is not too far, we'll usually try to make a side-trip.

  • Federal-Heights
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Federal-Heights is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Federal-Heights
  • Forest Home
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Forest Home is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Home
  • Fraternity Park
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Fraternity Park is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fraternity Park
  • Grand View
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Grand View is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand View
  • Maple City
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Maple City is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maple City
  • Merrywood
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Merrywood is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merrywood
  • Mount Olympus
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Mount Olympus is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Olympus
  • Mount Olympus Park
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Mount Olympus Park is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Olympus Park
  • Mountain Top Park
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Mountain Top Park is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain Top Park
  • Perrys Hollow
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Perrys Hollow is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Perrys Hollow
  • Pinecrest
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Pinecrest is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinecrest
  • Pratts
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Pratts is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pratts
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...
    • Quad
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Quad is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quad
    • Spring Glen
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Spring Glen is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Glen
    • Summit Park
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Summit Park is located in Summit County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summit Park
    • University Village
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
      • University Village is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for University Village
    • Virginia Heights
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
      • Virginia Heights is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Virginia Heights
    • Young Haven Circle
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Young Haven Circle is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Young Haven Circle

How Far From Little Mountain to ...

We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers, Almanacs & Directories that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Little Mountain to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Little Mountain and extending to:

  • Salt Lake City, which is the Seat of Salt Lake County, lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<1> to the west. If you could walk a straight line from Little Mountain to Salt Lake City, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take a little over three hours.
  • Salt Lake City, which is the State Capital of Utah, lies 9 miles [14.5 km] to the west (W). The buggy would take a little over three hours and walking would take four to five hours.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,831 miles [2,946.7 km] to the east (E). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take most of three days, a buggy would take 72 days and walking would take 104 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,993 miles [11,254.1 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,761 miles [12,490.1 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,739 miles [9,236 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Little Mountain) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Little Mountain could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.
<3>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Little Mountain, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>While we have tried to pick reasonable speeds, the rate of travel is very theoretical - obstacles like fences, hills, lakes, river crossings and rest stops have been ignored. When we say 'Days' of travel, we're assuming 8 hours of travel per day.
<5>The shortest line can be visualized by stretching a string on a Globe from Point A to Point B - this is known as a Great Circle Route. Where you might expect the shortest route from Little Mountain to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Little Mountain. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.7833, Longitude: -111.7213       In this case, the coordinates for Little Mountain have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 331.793 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 331.332 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 321.667 degrees.